FutureVision 4.1 Bug Reports

Maintained by Dave Miller

This list has been started from scratch on July 6th, 1996. Any bugs you know of that were reported before that time that haven't been fixed yet should be rereported. I will be attempting to assimilate the remaining contents of the fvbugs database on galadriel at some point, although its contents are rather sketchy since people didn't always report things well...


The New User module default emulation selection always tells the user that their current emulation is "Standard TTY" no matter what the logon autodetect says they're really using. Dark Dude 10/10/96
Certified mail receipts show the word "letter" instead of the receiver's address when reporting that "the letter you sent to xxxx was delivered".
CheezWhiz 8/21/96 (and others earlier)
The Conferencing data compiler fails to either delete 4/MSGCONF.DATA before rehashing the conferencing data or blank out the entries for non-networked subboards, so if a subboard number that used to belong to a networked conference is no longer networked, the network data WON'T go away...
TinMan 8/13/96
Maint 1 fails to address the System Rules file letter when mailing it to a new user.
TinMan 8/5/96
2/AUTOSIG.WARNING is missing from the distribution archive.
Dark Dude 7/31/96
Filemail Options should be prompted for when available (i.e. "This letter has a file attached. Press * for Filemail Options" or something to that effect).
CheezWhiz 7/28/96
Net Scriptor checks for destination sites on all type 3 conferences whether hosted or not (waste of time on a non-hosted conference).
CheezWhiz 7/28/96
Quote string on mail forward should say "Forwarded by" rather than "Forwarded from".
CheezWhiz 7/26/96
Sending mail receipt from a staff user aborts instead of sending it.
CheezWhiz 7/25/96
Days & Months (2/DATE.INFO) missing from distribution file.
Tinman 7/25/96
Email doesn't zero out all the headers before reading in a new email, leaving trailings from the previous letter if the current one has a less descript header.
CheezWhiz 7/25/96
New User should use an ssi() to determine whether to ask for SS# or not.
Dark Dude 7/25/96
Filemail download uses RZ instead of SZ
Dark Dude 7/25/96
3/FILEMAIL.OPTS has escaped control codes in it instead of regular ones. (swiped from METAL source and commands not removed?)
Dark Dude 7/25/96
MSG.EDITOR doesn't reliably recompile the conferencing data.
CheezWhiz 7/25/96
The following is how I wanted to format them, but the above is what I did when I was in a hurry, just to get the stuff posted :) I'll fix it later... (maybe)
Status: Verified/Fix not yet attempted
Reported by: CheezWhiz@antimatter.ecore.fnet.org
Date Reported: 07/06/96
File affected: 1/MSG.POSTMSG.L Version: 2.2.6b
Description of bug:
'References:' line often starts with a comma when posting messages.
Status: Verified/Fix not yet attempted
Reported by: Tinman@cottage.ecore.fnet.org
Date Reported: 07/06/96
File affected: 1/NET.SCRIPTOR.L Version: 3.5.8c
Description of bug:
Routing of 'unsopported conferences' to the DEAD.FILE results in Error #67 - Invalid File Reference Number.
Status: Fixed - new version is 1.1
Reported by: CheezWhiz@antimatter.ecore.fnet.org
Date Reported: 07/06/96
File affected: 58/AUTO.PURGE.S Version: not versioned
Description of bug:
The CalcHash routine doesn't backspace over the user number, so it fills the screen with numbers (minor cosmetic problem :)
Status: Verified/Fix not yet attempted
Reported by: CheezWhiz@antimatter.ecore.fnet.org
Date Reported: 07/06/96
File affected: 1/MSG.POSTMSG.L Version: 2.2.6b
File affected: 1/MSG.BASE.S ? Version: 1.3.3b
Description of bug:
Moderating networked conferences at the host site doesn't work...
On Write-to-Network the following occurs:

Status: Verified/Fix not yet attempted
Reported by: Dark_Dude@darkcastle.ecore.fnet.org
Date Reported: 07/04/96
File affected: 1/MSG.POSTMSG.L Version: 2.2.6b
File affected: 1/MSG.BASE.S Version: 1.3.3b
Description of bug:
FV fails to warn the user that Usenet messages won't show up right away when they post them.
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